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Comic Strip man, co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s aggressively unpleasant black comedy Eat the Rich (1987) about a waiter called Alex (Lanah Pellay, aka Al Pillay) getting fired from a trendy restaurant called Bastard’s, where he […]
‘Faithful to a man she hated… not daring to kiss a man who loved her! Neither husband nor lover could claim her.’ Director James Whale’s 1934 drama One More River [Over the River] is based […]
Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood version of Octave Mirbeau’s bourgeois-knocking novel about a grasping chambermaid hovers uncertainly between burlesque and tragedy but gives the performers the eagerly grabbed chance for a field day of brio acting. […]
Writer-director Woody Allen’s enjoyable 1990 romantic comedy Alice once again stars Mia Farrow, as Alice Tate, an uptight rich New York City housewife who meets and falls for handsome sax player Joe Ruffalo (Joe Mantegna), […]
Director Mike Nichols reunites with his Working Girl star Harrison Ford for the much less exciting 1991 Regarding Henry. Ford stars as heartless hotshot lawyer Henry Turner, who is shot in a holdup. Bening also […]
In 1936 Warner Bros remakes its 1931 movie Five Star Final, though the setting is transferred from newspapers to radio, with a title borrowed from an unrelated 1932 Warner movie. The tale about the muckraking […]
Director Whit Stillman’s charming, quirky 1990 drawing-room comedy of preppy manners among New York’s late Eighties privileged classes boasts a witty, erudite Oscar nominated Best Original Screenplay by début writer/director Stillman and sharp playing by a […]